xxxvi, 646 pages : 29 cm

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Introduction. The Egyptian language. The Egyptian writing. Brief history of Egyptian philology. Brief survey of Egyptian literature -- Index of extracts adapted from original Egyptian texts and used as reading-lessons -- Lesson I: The alphabet. Transliterature vocabulary and exercise I -- Lesson II: Ideograms. Determinatives. Verbals and non-verbal sentences. Vocabulary and exercise II -- Lesson III: Biliteral signs. Suffix-pronouns. The M of predication. The SDMF verb-form. Vocabulary and exercise III -- Lesson IV: Triliteral signs. Dependent pronouns. Adjectives. Vocabulary and exercise III -- Lesson V: Peculiarities of hieroglyphic writing. Independent pronouns. Word-order. The SDMNF verb-form. Vocabulary and exercise V -- Lesson VI: Nouns and adjectives. Vocabulary and exercise VI -- Lesson VII: Syntax of nouns and pronouns. Vocabulary and exercise VII -- Excursus A: The titulary and other designations of the king -- Lesson VIII: Syntax of adjectives. Equivalents of English adjectives, etc. Negation. Existential sentences. Vocabulary and exercise VIII -- Lesson IX: Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns. Possessive adjectives. Sentences expressing possession. Vocabulary and exercise IX -- Lesson X: Sentences with adverbial predicate. Vocabulary and exercise X

Lesson XI: Sentences with nominal or pronominal predicate. Vocabulary and exercise XI -- Lesson XII: Sentences with adjectival predicate. Vocabulary and exercise XII -- Lesson XIII: Anticipatory emphasis. Prepositions. Vocabulary and exercise XIII -- Lesson XIV: Prepositions (cont.) Vocabulary and exercise XIV -- Lesson XV: Subordinate clauses. Noun clauses. Vocabulary and exercise XV -- Lesson XVI: Relative clauses. Vocabulary and exercise XVI -- Lesson XVII: Adverbs. Adverb clauses. Vocabulary and exercise XVII -- Excursus: The formula of offering employed in the funerary cult -- Lesson XVIII: Direct and indirect speech. Non-enclitic particles. Vocabulary and exercise XVIII -- Lesson XIX: Enclitic particles. Interjections. Vocabulary and exercise XIX -- Lesson XX: Numbers. Weights and measures. Vocabulary and exercise XX -- Excursus: The divisions of time and method of dating -- Lesson XXI: The verb (introductory). The verb-classes. Voice, mood, and tense. Terminology -- Lesson XXIA. The infinitive Vocabulary and exercise XXI -- Lesson XXII: The old perfective. Vocabulary and exercise XXII -- Lesson XXIII. The pseudo-verbal construction. Vocabulary and exercise XXIII -- Lesson XXIV: The imperative. The negatival complement. The negative verb. Other modes of negation. Vocabulary and exercise XXIV -- Lesson XXV: The participles. The SDMTY-FY form -- Lesson XXVA: Uses of the participles and of the SDMTY-FY form. Vocabulary and exercise XXV -- Lesson XXVI: Syntax of the participles and of the SDMTY-FY form. The relative forms. Vocabulary and exercise XXVI -- Lesson XXVII: Special uses of the participles and relative forms. The SDMTF form. Vocabulary and exercise XXVII -- Lessons XXIX: The passive SDMF form. The SDMMF form. THe SDMINF, SDMHRF and SDMK3F forms. Parenthetic phrases for 'said he', etc. Vocabulary and exercise XXIX -- Lesson XXX: The SDMF form. The imperfect SDMF. Vocabulary and exercise XXX -- Lesson XXXI: The perfective SDMF form. Vocabulary and exercise XXXI -- Lesson XXXII: Compound narrative verb-forms. The auxiliary 'IW. THe auxiliary WNN. The auxiliary 'H'. Other auxiliary verbs. Concluding remarks on the suffix conjugation. Vocabulary and exercise XXXII -- Lesson XXXIII: Different types of sentence. Questions. Interrogative pronouns and adverbs. Indirect questions. Multiple sentences. Ellipses. Final remarks on word-order. Concord. Vocabulary and exercise XXXIII -- New paragraphs and other additions

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